Principal Engineer-Annuity Platforms and Transformation

Domain & Technical Leadership

• Purpose: Enable the end-to-end technology vision, architecture, and solution strategy across the annuity ecosystem
• Partner with enterprise and domain architects to establish future-state platform architecture and multi-year technology roadmaps
• Define technology guardrails to ensure consistency across annuity platforms
• Lead architecture and solution reviews, design governance, and critical technical decision-making
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor across annuity technology initiatives
• Translate strategic business objectives into scalable, secure, and maintainable technology solutions
• Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture direction and delivery execution
• Identify opportunities to simplify applications, reduce redundancy, and improve platform interoperability

Distribution & Third-Party Ecosystem Enablement

• Purpose: Build scalable technology capabilities that enable Guardian’s growth through third party distribution channels and strategic partnerships
• Partner with third-party distributors, broker-dealers, RIAs, custodians, aggregators, and strategic technology providers to define and deliver scalable technology solutions
• Collaborate with business and product teams to improve advisor onboarding, product access, servicing, and transaction capabilities
• Define reusable API, event, and integration frameworks that enable efficient connectivity across Guardian and external partner ecosystems
• Ensure third-party solutions are fully integrated with core annuity platforms and enterprise capabilities
• Support Guardian's 2030 distribution strategy by creating scalable technology foundations that accelerate ecosystem growth and partner enablement
• Drive platform strategies that enhance advisor, partner, and customer experiences while improving speed-to-market and operational effectiveness

Annuity Modernization & Platform Transformation

• Purpose: Modernize the annuity technology while improving scalability, resiliency and operational efficiency
• Provide technology solutions across policy administration, operations, servicing, distribution, and data platforms
• Enable modernization of legacy annuity platforms and supporting ecosystems
• Manage the Annuity workflow & Integrations
• Develop strategies for application rationalization, platform simplification, and technical debt reduction
• Advance adoption of cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and domain-driven architecture patterns
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability engineering, and quality engineering practices
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry platforms to support future business growth
• Influence technology investment decisions through data-driven recommendations aligned to business outcomes

Innovation & Engineering Excellence

• Purpose: Drive innovation and engineering maturity within the Annuity domain to enable Guardian’s long term Annuity growth strategy
• Champion innovative technology solutions that support Guardian's long-term annuity growth strategy
• Explore and enable opportunities involving Artificial Intelligence, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and emerging technology trends
• Promote experimentation, continuous improvement, and modern engineering practices across annuity teams
• Identify opportunities to accelerate delivery, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer and advisor experiences through technology innovation
• Foster engineering excellence by promoting reusable architecture patterns, modern development practices, and continuous learning

Engineering Leadership & Influence

• Purpose: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, architects, and delivery teams
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Influence technology investment decisions through data-driven recommendations and business outcome alignment